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Welcome to Nourishing Connections. I hope you will discover more and more about God, and God’s extraordinary world, as you explore this site.
I was ordained in 1980 and have loved serving as a curate, missionary, theologian, vicar, bishop, and mission theologian, in London, Kenya, Cambridge, Islington, Sherborne, and the global South of the Anglican Communion. Now living in retirement in Cambridge, I am an Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Ely and Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, which I founded in 1996.
The seven paintings of Women in the Bible, at the top of each section, are by Silvia Dimitrova. We enjoyed working together on this project from 2003-2020 and my accompanying poems are in the poetry section. Tristan Latchford has composed seven anthems on these paintings and poems and the world premiere was on 14 June 2023 at St Stephen, Walbrook, London. A 17 min Fugue State Films film of the premiere may be seen here and the concert programme (with biblical texts, photos of the paintings, poems and bios) may be seen here.
I am very grateful to the editors and publishers of the books, journals and websites where these publications first appeared.
16. Coronation and Commonwealth: Heft and Weft
20/11/2023 From Ponderings
My article, in a special edition on Religion and Commonwealth Values, in The Round Table, the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 2023, Vol. 112, No. 5, 543-544. Originally published here. For my previous article in The Round Table, 'Desmond Tutu: Gravitas and Hilaritas', click here.
Nourishing Memories Chap 8: Curacy in Harlesden, London
17/10/2023 From Nourishing Memories
I continue my cumulative memoir, Nourishing Memories, recounting my curacy in the multiracial parish of St Mark, Harlesden, London, 1980-84, including the founding of an open youth club and two further research visits to Yugoslavia in 1981 and 1984. Republished with permission from Covenant: link to original, 6 Oct 2023, is here.
15. World Premiere in Wren's Church, St Stephen, Walbrook
25/04/2023 From Ponderings
I describe the excitement of commissioning a short film to be made by Fugue State Films of the world premiere of Tristan Latchford’s seven anthems, ‘Celebrating Women in the Bible’, 14 June 2023, at Wren’s masterwork of a parish church, St Stephen’s Walbrook, London. Published originally 24 April 2023 on Covenant here.
14. Confluence, Crossed, Raid: Three Poems in Holy Week and Easter 2023
24/04/2023 From Ponderings
At St Andrew's Chesterton, Cambridge, our local church, I wrote three poems on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day 2023: 'Confluence', 'Crossed', and 'Raid'. On Sunday 16 April 2023, I preached an All Age Sermon using them at the church. Video here. They were published originally on Covenant 17 April 2023 here.
Nourishing Memories Chap 7: Cambridge and Yugoslavia
05/04/2023 From Nourishing Memories
I continue my cumulative memoir, Nourishing Memories, recounting my training at Ridley Hall theological college and Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1978-80, and my research visit to Yugoslavia in June 1980, meeting leaders of the Roman Catholic, Serbian Orthodox and Protestant churches. Republished with permission from Covenant: link to original, 27 Mar 2023, is here.